The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-02-12
News of the Week.

New York has saloon for every "a regis
tered voters in the city.
Ex-Alderman Thomas Cleary is the next
alleged 'boodler'' to be tried in New York.
His trial is set for next Wednesday.
The Senate of Alabama, by vote of % to
l, has passed a resolution submitting a pro-
hibition amendment to the popular vote.
A telegram from Carson says both Houses
of the Nevada Legislature on Wednesday,
adopted resolutions DISTINGUISHING the Nor
mons in that State.
| A strong Mormon lobby, headed by L. A.
| Smith, President Of the Council, left Salt Lake
| City on Monday for Washington, to work
against the Edmunds-Tucker bill.
A school-house at st. Monique, Quebec,
| was burned on Thursday night of last week,
/ and four girls, aged from ten to twelve years,
who slept in the building, lost their lives.
Frederick Mueller attempted suicide by
4 cutting his throat in Washington on Monday.
| He is likely to recover. He said at the hos
| pital that failure to secure employment, worry
over his wife and child in Philadelphia, and
hunger, all tempted him to the deed
A telegram from Mason City, Iowa, says
the hog plague which has been raging in that
section is abating. As an evidence of its
fatality it is stated that within radius of two
hogs have died, and this is not exceptional.
Heavy floods are reported in the rivers of
| Illinois and Indiana, also in Northern New
York, doing much damage to property in va
rious cities. Two million feet of saw logs
were swept away by the moving of the ice
gorge above Lock Haven, Pa, on Tuesday
evening.
Edward Loew, city editor of the Arbeiter
Zeitung, in Milwaukee, was on Monday SEN
fenced by Judge Sloan to thirty days labor in
the House of Correction for contempt of court
in causing to be published libellous statements
in connection with the trial of Grottkau, the
Anarchist.
Twenty one clerks of the War Department
have been reported to the Secretary of War
as incompetent, inefficient or irregular in their
Performance of their duties, and will probably
be dismissed. The Secretary has directed the
discharge of a clerk in the adjutant- generals
office who refused to do extra duty after hours
when so requested.
Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes
Booth, and who has been elected third assis-
tant doorkeeper of the House of Representa-
tives of Kansas by unanimous vote, is said
to be living on farm in Cloud county, Kan
sas. where he resided for the past ten years in
very poor circumstances.
W,
Ark, is said to be so pure that it can be
forged by blacksmith into horseshoe nails
without any smelling, and that this was often
done during the war. The outcrop measures
two miles from east to west, is from fifteen to
thirty feet wide and of unknown depth
A heavy snow storm prevailed in Northern
Montana on Sunday night, and there is now
from IA to "a inches of snow on the ground on
level. There is terrible suffering among the
cattle, food is scarce, and coal is selling at $50
ton. The Indian Commissioners have been
snow-bound at Choteau since January o.
Charlie Andrews, 9-year, old boy, given
to somnambulsm, walked off the platform of
a car on train that was going at full speed
on the Pan Handle, near Xenia, Ohio, the
other night. When he was missed trainmen
were sent back to obtain his mangled remains
as was expected, but they found him sitting
beside fence unhurt and without any recol-
lection of how he got off the train
A Chicago dispatch says: There is much
excitement in the ranks of the local Knights |
of Labor. 1t has been discovered that some |
of the most trusted members of the body are
in the employ of certain detective agencies,
to whom they have betrayed the secrets of the |
labor organizations. 1t is said that positive
proof of treachery has been obtained against
thirteen members, who will be expelled at
once.
Mrs. Lima Swafiield, of Beverly, Mass, who
has recently been taken to Florida by her !
husband, who hopes that change of scene and |
climate will restore her to sanity, is the vic |
tim of practical joke. A few weeks ago her |
husband Joined hunting party. On the way
home one of the party hurriedin advance and |
told Mrs. Swaffield that her husband had been |
shot and killed. She tainted, remained I'M
conscious for several hours, and when she re-
1llineS5it. IS was insane.
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